24-08-2021, 02:42 PM
Steve in Pudsey post_id=35796 time= user_id=942 Wrote:Eldoradohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_May#Post-EastEnders
Quote:Following their collaboration on EastEnders, Julia Smith and Tony Holland commissioned May to write the theme tune for the new Eurosoap Eldorado. May reworked a song called "When You Go Away" which he had written for his ill-fated musical Mefisto, based on Goethe's Faust, adding Spanish guitars to make it more relevant to the Eldorado project. An instrumental version of the theme was used for the opening and closing credits. However, the vocal version of the song was recorded by Johnny Griggs, and was used over the closing credits of the final episode.
Guess that answers where it came from, the actual passage is cited to a book. I have to say, having watched a bit of Eldorado, the music was probably it's best attribute.